SATURDAY NEWS:* A handful of charts that explain how the rich don't pay as much in taxes.* Trying to quantify the shift to the far right in the Republican party.* As noted previously - is Romney the new Kerry?* Good read: empathy won't be as big topic this November.* Reading into Romney's word choices.* Whoah. The rocket engines for Apollo 11 have been located in the Atlantic.* The problem with tourism in DC.* A brief history of the war on bagpipes.

I was busking Rome's Via del Corso in 2007 when a piper wiped out every pitch on the street. I joined eight buskers in glowering at him from the opposite corner, and I don't know what was said to him but he never played closer than four blocks to us again.